Originally posted by Xasthur
So, I'm half-way through a Bachelor of Arts degree which I started because I have no idea what I want to do for a living, thinking I would get an idea of what I wanted to do fairly easily.
Half-way through my degree I find myself no closer to any sort of idea of what direction I want to take with employment. (I'm majoring in Sociology and Philosophy if that means anything to anyone)
The reason I mention this is because I am wondering what you all do for a living and how you enjoyable or fulfilling you find your work?
Thanks for your time, gents
I received my degree in Liberal Farts..err Arts back in '92 from CSUSB because at the time I had no idea what I wanted to do. My parents were pushing me to follow every other male in my family and major in Internation Business and then get a law degree but I found that to be boring and not something I wanted to do. At the time all I wanted to do was working in the computer gaming industry but my advisors always laughed at me saying that I'd never make a living working in that industry.
So I picked a major that would allow me to sleep in until noon, which was Liberal Arts and when I left college my first two jobs where at gaming hardware companies then later moved on to a gaming company where I cut my teeth doing first party QA. Doing that for a couple of years, I transfered over to the company's online division and worked in the community relations part for a couple of the company's online games. After a 5 year stint, I got another job at a major game developer up here in Los Angeles in a newly created division the company recently started up. So basically, my department has oversight of the community and online departments as well as creating and writing online policy and procedure for our online games, training manuals and training programs for new hires and acting as liasons between our online division and other departments. I love it.
And my parents said playing computer games as a kid would never pay off.
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